Corporate Knights

MARCH 24, 2023

The results: the best investments of the past three to five years turn out to be the companies that jumped feet-first into the green economy. “As Between January 1, 2019, and March 22, 2023, the value of the top quintile of the SEI grew 146%, compared to 47% for the MSCI ACWI. The numbers tell the story.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP), one of Canada’s largest investors, with over $240 billion in assets under management, announced today the appointment of Anna Murray as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 8, 2023

But PE is well placed to lead sustainable investing. found that 90% of limited partners factor ESG into their investment decisions, and 77% use it as a criterion in selecting general partners. In 2019, TPG announced an investment in Cibus, a plant-based food company that uses biotechnology to develop sustainable food products.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 6, 2022

SUMMARY: Aligned With the Paris Agreement and Approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), JetBlue Commits to Reduce Jet Fuel Emissions 50% Per Revenue Tonne Kilometer by 2035 From 2019 Levels. Charting a path to net zero. The aviation industry is at a critical time in our push towards net zero.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 7, 2022

In a statement supporting the resolution, BCGEU recommends the affiliated companies, Brookfield Business Partners and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, reduce their portfolio emissions by 22% to 32% between 2020 to 2025, a target in keeping with the UN-backed Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance. More RBC scrutiny. Canadian oil.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 26, 2024

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. Crucially, the companies’ average sustainable investment (as a percentage of total investment) hit 58.9% Climate commitments legend 1.5°C:

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 16, 2024

In the 2024 Global 100 ranking, the top-ranked firms allocated 55% of their investments to sustainable projects, up from 47% the year prior. That compares with sustainable investments at a paltry 17% among the broader universe of publicly traded companies with more than US$1 billion in annual revenue.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

For example, the indicative financed emissions from the UK financial sector in 2019 were found to be 1.8 Financial organisations thus have a major role to play in the decarbonisation of the global economy, yet it is estimated that since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the 60 largest banks have instead invested $5.5

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

G100 Rank Company HQ Location Carbon Productivity % Non-Male Board Directors % Sustainable Revenue % Sustainable Investment Final Grade Climate Commitments. 21 8 Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC Brentford, U.K. 56 75 CapitaLand Investment Ltd Singapore, Singapore $10,348 27% 38% 41% B- SBTi. G100 Rank 2022.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2025

Sustainable investment opportunities and risks are slowly beginning to emerge as Europe outlines its plans to rearm. But some called for a more fundamental reboot of investment in European innovation especially in clean technologies to pursue trajectories that are compatible with its climate transition targets.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This has included legislating a 2050 net zero target and setting a legally-binding target to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 below 2005 levels. Investment in adaptation offers significant opportunities that are yet to be comprehensively tapped,” said Rena Pulido, Head of Sustainable Investment Australia at IFM Investors, a A$221.7

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

CPP Investments, the investment manager of the Canada Pension Plan, announced today the appointment of Richard Manley as Chief Sustainability Officer. Manley has been serving as Head of Sustainable Investing at CPP Investments, since joining the firm in 2019.

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Corporate Knights

MAY 14, 2024

trillion in financing for new fossil fuel expansion projects, investments that put the net-zero goal of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy. from 2022, and down more than 26% from the highest fossil financing recorded in 2019. This sum includes US$3.3

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) will pursue carbon neutrality by 2050 via a strategy of active engagement to drive real-economy decarbonisation, according to Deb Orida, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of Real Assets. Whole economy transition. It’s something we will continue to look at.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Kwan joined the association in 2019 to help asset managers in the region deal with the increasing amount of sustainability-related requirements they are facing from regulators. The intent to invest sustainably doesnt always translate into the flow of hard dollars into sustainable products.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including LGIM, Amundi, LOIM, Algebris, R&M, and Banor Capital. . Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) , which has £1.42 trillion in AUM, has launched the L&G Net Zero Global Corporate Bond Fund.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 13, 2024

Chris Skidmore, former MP and author of the net zero review, talks about what the next UK government should do to get the country’s net zero commitments back on track. “I cannot vote for the [Offshore Petroleum Licensing] bill next week. In May, a High Court ruling ordered it publish a revised net zero strategy.

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ESG Today

JULY 12, 2022

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) unveiled its 2025 strategic ambitions today, focused primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Founded in 2019, London-based Pollination works with financial institutions, large companies, and governments to implement net zero and nature-positive transition strategies, with expertise provided in areas including finance, investment, corporate governance and strategy, technology, law, and policy.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Spanish electric vehicle charging company Zunder announced today a €100 million investment from sustainable investment manager Mirova, aimed at expanding the startup’s ultra-fast EV charging station network across Southern Europe.

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ESG Today

MARCH 13, 2024

Natixis Investment Managers’ sustainable investing affiliate Mirova announced today that it has raised more than €195 million (USD$213 million) for its corporate-backed Climate Fund for Nature, aimed at supporting high-quality projects dedicated to nature protection and restoration.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The appointment follows the announcement earlier this year of BNPP AM’s 2025 strategic ambitions, which focus primarily on extending its sustainable investing capabilities and offerings, with the goal to become “the sustainable asset manager of reference in Europe.”

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The UK’s net zero transition depends on huge amounts of private capital that can only be unlocked through climate policy certainty. Go like the wind The global energy crisis, sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, highlighted the importance of ensuring a steady flow of domestic, sustainable energy supply.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 18, 2024

Transition” refers to activities that do not meet the green thresholds now but are on a pathway to net zero or contributing to net zero outcomes. The measures in sum: The package of measures is intended to improve trust and transparency in the market for sustainable investment products and minimize greenwashing.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 5, 2024

Realizing that climate impacts threaten more than supply chains and physical infrastructure, we made the commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2050, using our 2019 baseline. In addition, we use tracking programs to monitor and manage our environmental performance and calculate our annual carbon footprint.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Nasdaq ESG Advisory Launched as an organic growth initiative in 2019, Nasdaq’s ESG Advisory is a service solution that pairs companies with consultative ESG expertise to help analyze, assess and put into action best-practice ESG programs with the goals of attracting long-term capital and enhancing value.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The concept of assessing what effective stewardship should look like was first introduced by the FCA in 2019 in a joint effort with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), setting the groundwork which helped define what the minimum expectations should be for financial services firms investing on behalf of clients and beneficiaries.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Difficulties in definition continue to thwart efforts to demonstrate the financial benefits of sustainable investments. Sustainable fund flows attracted US$37 billion of net new money in Q4 2022, with global sustainable fund assets reaching a total of US$2.5 trillion by 2026, up from US$18.4

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Raised by two environmentalists, she’s dedicated to ensuring women have equal opportunity to succeed in our net-zero future. Last year, Folino’s firm made a commitment to make its operations and assets under management net-zero by 2050 or earlier – a challenge he’s embracing with open arms. trillion in coal.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 23, 2024

Policies, regulations and wider laws are among the many elements that set the path and guide them on their journey to net zero. Between 2019 and 2022, climate activists across the country became disheartened by the weaponisation of climate action under Scott Morrison’s government. trillion) in assets.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Proposed climate transition -oriented benchmark and index investment guidance for the EU and beyond is expected to better incentivise passive capital flows supporting companies journeys to net zero. Transition-potential indexes would comprise companies demonstrating potential to align with net zero in a time-bound manner.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

C, adequate intermediate reduction targets, and a goal of net zero by 2050. As noted in my previous article, in 2021, the Hague District Court ordered Shell to reduce its emissions by 45% by 2030, relative to 2019, including both its own emissions and end-use emissions. In fact, this is already happening.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 21, 2024

Through the London Fund, the LPFA has invested in projects including the regeneration of Shepherd’s Bush Market in West London, the redevelopment of the Saville Theatre, Virtus Data Centres, and Edge – a net zero development in London Bridge. billion in avoided emissions. As of June 2023, around 4.4%

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In a move to better support emerging markets’ (EMs) climate transition efforts, 12 UK-based pension funds have unveiled draft guiding principles that will inform their sustainable investing strategies. . As asset owners, we are committed to achieving net zero,” they said. . Focus on intentionality .

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Sustainability trends 2023: Net-Zero roadmaps. Source VBA.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

Alongside the TSP, the alliance has published a background document which further elaborates on its approach to, and perspective of, investment portfolio decarbonisation in the next five years. “The Latest iteration of the alliance’s target-setting protocol expands coverage to private markets, providing more detail on sovereign debt.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2022

Institutional investors are increasingly attracted to climate-focused passive investment vehicles as a systematic and cost-effective way of transitioning their portfolios to net zero. . Anyone can claim that a product is Paris-aligned,” he says. .

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